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Trips-Over-Tail t1_jdvp3ti wrote

Reply to comment by BariNgozi in Everyone talks about how huge Andromeda will look in the sky billions of years from now. I present you what the Milky Way *currently* looks like in the skies of our neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. We appear absolutely huge in their skies! [Simulated view] by lampiaio

And yet all those stars are totally erased by a shining moon or a distant town or less than perfect spectacles.

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uhh186 t1_jdw1py8 wrote

That's due to our atmosphere. If you were on a body without an atmosphere that effect would be eliminated.

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